TALBOT1880

Fordell ¹
Wednesday night 4^th November

Dear Lady Hopetoun Henry

We are surprized you have not appeared here to day, & send Robert with this to try & find you out & to bring back our letters. We stay here tomorrow so pray come & the next day we go to Hopetoun House ² for two days. M^r Feilding ³ is not very well, all the shooting at Rossie ⁴ has been too much for his foot, which is painy & uncomfortable

If you have any thing better to do where you are, I would not engage you to come here but that is unlikely I should think – Robert takes this at 8 in the morning & the hour late & I’m sleepy so no more Sir Philip & Lady Durham ⁵ send you all sorts of civilities.

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Douglas’s Hotel
Edinburgh

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